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January 18, 2001 

Dhaka-- (UNB) – A memorandum of understanding was signed yesterday between the Export Promotion Bureau and a reputed French firm to conduct a feasibility study for construction of World Trade Centre in the city.

Buicks Batiment, which has expertise in construction of WTCs, hotels, exhibition and conference halls worldwide, will carry out the study at its own cost and submit report in next three months.

Secretary of the Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) Sheikh Muhammad Wahiduzzaman and Jha Mari Varbruce of Buicks Batiment signed the agreement on behalf of their respective organisations.

Commerce Minister Abdul Jalil was present in the signing ceremony as a special guest while Secretary of the parliamentary standing committee on Commerce Ministry Raziuddin Ahmed Raju, member of the committee Muhibur Rahman, Commerce Secretary Golam Rahman, Vice Chairman of EPB AB Choudhury and other officials were also present.

Earlier, the government had decided to set up World Trade Centre near Hotel Sonargaon at Karwan Bazar on build-operate-transfer (BOT) basis “to add dynamism in the country’s export trade and provide increased support services for international trade”.

The facilities which will be in the Trade Centre are: permanent fair complex for displaying products, allocated place for commercial and trade offices of different countries and local and foreign experts and trade office, bank, insurance, revenue and export-import office.

Halls of different sizes for conference, seminar and training, media centre, shopping mall and a 300-room five-star hotel will also be constructed there.

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